[Klug-general] Kent Digest, Vol 322, Issue 1

Reece Fowell reece at codeconsortium.com
Mon Apr 25 22:32:20 UTC 2011


> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 10:34:04 +0000
> From: nic dan <dungeons88 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Klug-general] Disaster Recovery?
> To: <kent at mailman.lug.org.uk>
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> I normally use Testdisk, which is one of the tools on my TRK utility CD...more info/download here
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> http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
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> http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?content=TRINITY_RESCUE_KIT_DOWNLOAD&front_id=12&lang=en&locale=en
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> TRK has other utilities on it, too, but after burning the iso, pop it in, with the offending drive connected and boot
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> [Read the section on lost/corrupted partition fat tables]
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> type testdisk at the prompt, and follow the instructions to analyze the drive....it should see the existing and previous partitions...once your happy that it sees the correct info, save/write the fat table for recovery...it should be that simple....good luck
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> Aitch
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Just noticed that testDisk is listed as also coming with PartedMagic live CD, so partedMagic
probably is one of the best recovery live cd distros for this kind of thing.

Reece.


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